Re: [Fwd: [Discuss] Debconf as an administration tool]
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:55:20 +1000, Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> said:
> Comments appreciated. -----Forwarded Message-----
>> From: Bruce Perens <bruce@perens.com> To:
>> discuss@lists.userlinux.com Subject: [Discuss] Debconf as an
>> administration tool Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 15:50:16 -0700
>>
>> As far as I understand this, not having investigated in great
>> depth:
>>
>> 1. Debconf can configure most anything that is set up by a Debian
>> package to the point that it works. But some more detailed
>> configuration is not done through it.
Umm. Debconf is just a means of interacting with the user --
it does not parse, or write, any configuration files by itself. The
maintainer scripts do all the heavy lifting.
>> 5. Debconf is currently set up to administer one system at a time.
>> Currently it doesn't do clusters.
You mean the maintainer scripts.
>> 6. Some Debian developers have resisted making Debconf into more of
>> a generalized system configuration tool, for reasons unclear to me.
The reasons shall become clearer when you look into what
debconf actually is.
>> >
>> > The problem is that an increasing number of configuration files
>> > in Debian are preceeded by a comment saying something like 'Do
>> > not under any circumstances edit this file by hand, use [program
>> > x] instead.' And of course Webmin and other third party tools
>> > are not going to observe that directive (unless the Webmin
>> > package maintainer is practically rewriting it), which may cause
>> > problems.
This is a bug in that package.
manoj
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